Donald Trump blaming Bush for the 9/11 attacks is really no surprise. He attacks everything and criticizes everyone in office. Period. Add to that the delight he takes in jabbing at Jebbie and his criticisms are a no-brainer.

For me, the tell-tale sign – the give-away that he has no rational hold on reality is that he refers to the time GW was in office as his ‘reign’. And GW is not the first president to whom he has assigned this verb – he’s also used it to describe Pres. Obama.

But let’s be clear – United States Presidents do not ‘reign’ over the country. They are publicly elected officials with limited powers who are sworn to carry out the laws enacted by a publicly elected body of legislators. The president of the United States is not a privileged individual who gets to write laws or make his or her own rules for the country.Presidents are not kings who reign over a dynasty of peasants.

By continually using the verb ‘reign’ to describe Presidents Bush or Obama’s term of office, The Donald is letting slip his skewed and erroneous worldview of American politics and providing a window for the rest of us to have a good, hard look at his own personal expectations of what being a president means to him.

I sincerely wish the media would pay closer attention to his choice of words and less to the sound of his bark.

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5 Responses to “Quick! Somebody Get Trump a Dictionary! (Oh and maybe a copy of the constitution and a high school civics book…)”

I blame Dumbya for 9/11 too, but your point about the word “reign” is well taken. Dumbya ignored all the warnings that Al Qaeda was preparing for the attack on America. Thanks to his short attention span and arrogance, we had the worst terrorist attack on American soil. That was the start of the downward spiral that destroyed millions of people’s investments and enriched the Bush and Cheney coffers with the huge profits of war. So yes, I blame Bush. He and Cheney belong in prison.

Another tell is his “I won’t call world leaders, they have to call me” crap. World leaders call no one, diplomats start the chain of events for those meetings be they in person or on the phone. The only time a world leader calls another is if that other has a state of emergency (hurricane, earthquake, etc.) and it still goes through many channels before any steps are taken by our president (no matter who it is).

Jeb is in defensive mode. He does not like anyone being reminded that 9/11 happened on his big brother’s watch. He released a campaign attack ad against Trump on Saturday, which included info Trump’s said in regard to U.S. foreign policy. The point of the ad is to show that Trump isn’t presidential material. They’re duking it out on Twitter, too. The Daily Mail UK just published an article about the invasion of Iraq. The info in the article was found in HR Clinton’s email dump, and it doesn’t make G.W. Bush look good. Former British PM Blair had agreed to assist Bush in invading Iraq a year before Bush invaded Iraq. Blair lied to the British people about the invasion, and some British politicians are hopping mad. The Clinton email dump also reveals that Bush had spies in the British Labour Party whose job was to manipulate British citizens’ opinion about the invasion and get them to support it. I’m quite certain that this is not what the GOP/TPers were looking for when they demanded former Sec. of State Clinton’s emails. Ooops!http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html

I told my son who was (gasp, groan) going to vote for GW before the election that, if elected, he would grasp any straw for an excuse to invade Iraq. He thought I had lost my mind, he knows now that I hadn’t.